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A Fathers Wedding Speech
I'm only going to speak for a couple of minutes because of my throat;
…if I go on too long Maggie has threatened to cut it.
I've tried to memorize this speech, but forgive me if I resort to my
notes every five seconds. I did ask for an autocue to be set up in
front of me, but apparently the wedding budget doesn't stretch that
far ... and neither does my eyesight.
This takes me back to the last occasion that I was called upon to say
a few words at a wedding. It was twenty five years ago this December
and it was my wedding to Nick’s mother Maggie.
I recall being totally lost for any thing of any consequence to say. A
feeling of total inadequacy descended upon me. It was a new experience
to me. I was young and really knew nothing about being inadequate
You see a Marriage Certificate on it’s own is not a qualification. It
doesn’t mean that you have achieved anything, It has no value of it’s
own.
It comes with no Guarantees of quality, it makes no mention of the
length of the marriage that it refers to. In fact many happy
compatible couples have no use for marriage at all.
Now I can say this because Marriage has worked for me, but I accept
that it has not served everyone as well. My Wife and I have been
together for twenty five years.
Nowadays, that is a qualification!
I believe marriage will teach Nick loyalty, self-restraint, control,
it will develop in him a sense of fair play ------ and many other
qualities he wouldn't need if he had stayed single…
Some time ago Nick asked me what it would cost to get married. I had
to admit--I just don’t know---- I’m still paying
I asked Nick, what he was looking for in marriage, he said love,
happiness and eventually a family.
I asked Nicky the same question, she replied……A TOASTER!
I got married in 1974
The year of the three day week
Disposable plastic razors invented by Gillette and Free family
planning available on the NHS.
I was working eight nights a week, I had an electric shaver and Maggie
was expecting Lee. So all of those significant events some how passed
me by.
I was also unaware that in that year my future daughter in law was to
be born.
In 77 The US space shuttle prototype 'Enterprise' flies for the first
time. Red Rum wins Grand National for 3rd time. Elvis Presley
collapsed in a bathroom for the last time.
Which is quite a coincidence really, because Nick was born that very
year and like Elvis Presley, Ladies and gentlemen, he is prone to
collapsing in bathrooms!
It’s hard to imagine how Nick feels today,
How does the first day of the rest of your life manifest itself for a
man who's experience of reality is that unpleasant pause while the
play station loads the next game?
So I have defined what you do not necessarily get from a marriage
certificate. Perhaps I had better now say what I think a marriage
certificate is.
A marriage certificate is very much like a blank lottery ticket. It
carries the anticipation of a rosy future. Everything always perfect
from now on. At the time of acquiring it, there is nothing to
distinguish an out and out no hoper from the jackpot.
Like a lottery , a marriage requires some input from you. Like a
lottery it rather depends on the selections or decisions that you
make.
Unlike a lottery having made the initial decisions, one shouldn’t just
sit back and wait to see if your prize has come up. Marriage is a
participation game and requires constant tweaking and fine tuning.
Today, you may consider your wedding day to be the best day of your
life. ONLY TODAY THOUGH. The best day of you r life TO DATE.
My wedding day 25 years ago has not been the best day of my life.
Our marriage has given us much better days than that.
We have raised a family who are now well adjusted adults (most of the
time) and are counted among our closest friends, which is nice. We
have had our ups and downs. But our relationship is now bonded by a
lifetimes memories and mutual experience.
We are human ,and therefore capable of doing dumb things from time to
time. What is important is that at those times one learns from
experiences and emerges from them a better and more complete person.
There can be no substitute for experience and learning from ones own
doings.
Nick: The key to a long and happy marriage it to remember those two
little words; Yes dear!
In a successful marriage one sometimes has to indulge ones partner
with an abundance of tolerance. This is one of the numbers to include
on your lottery ticket.
Nicky--One of your mother in laws favorite sayings (Which I do not
entirely understand why) is this---- and I quote
If you love something, set it free,
If it comes back, it was, and always will be, yours.
If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with .
If all it does is just sit in your house, messes up your stuff, eats
your food, uses the telephone, takes your money, and monopolizes your
television,
you either married it, or gave birth to it.
Now what could she have meant by that ?
Because you are not super human, you will have good days together and
not so good.
This time next year you can look back and recall this commitment today
and consider your celebration.
If your numbers have come up! Twelve months will have bonded this
marriage with happy memories, yours exclusively, as will subsequent
years.
I would like to welcome Mrs. Nicky Exxxxxxxx My new Daughter in law,
to my family. Nick she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband.
Thank God you married her before she found one
I’d like to wish you a very happy marriage, and I hope you have a
great honeymoon, which you will find is that period between ‘I do’ and
‘You’d better’.
I started planning this speech a month ago, …and you must feel like I
have been delivering it equally as long, So that is all from me
Except to mention one quality that a successful lottery ticket and a
successful marriage certificate require alike.
It is a quality that Maggie and I seem to have enjoyed with our
marriage certificate, although I have to say not ever with a lottery
ticket. It is the one aspect we have no control over, so it is no call
to be smug.
I would like to ask those here present today to join me in a toast to
wish Mr. and Mrs. Nick Exxxxxxxx all the luck in the world.
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